Finding and keeping lasting friendships is not easy. In today’s post, Lisa-Jo Baker outlines five common friendship mistakes we’ve all made, along with suggestions for how to avoid them. In showing up fully as ourselves and learning to love like Jesus, we can form lasting friendships that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.
Establishing strong relationships with our children while they are young is essential to their growth and well-being. Being intentional in the way we talk with our little ones sets the foundation for more difficult conversations in the future. In today’s post, guest writer Amber Adrian shares simple adjustments we can make to our daily interactions with our kids that will yield big payoffs.
Defeating defensiveness has been an ongoing struggle for me, but I am making imperfect progress. Today, I’m sharing what God is showing me about why I take things personally and self-protect, along with five tips that have helped me foster healthier communication.
Many marriage conflicts arise from poor communication. We make assumptions, don’t speak precisely, or respond defensively based on preconceived notions and past experiences, putting up metaphorical shields that prevent connection. We shut down rather than listen, cutting off communication without either person feeling heard or understood. In today’s post, guest author Kate Bartley shares five key messages that every husband (and wife) needs to hear. These messages are essential to cultivating healthy communication with your spouse that will open the door to deeper connection and a stronger marriage.
Out of an overflow of God’s love, we can implement simple practices that cultivate Christlike character in our children and invite God’s love to fill our homes. In today’s post, I share are five practices to create a Christ-centered home and build a rock-solid foundation for our children’s faith.
Adversity is critical to our spiritual growth just like exercise is critical to our physical health. Adversity allows for growth, strengthens our character, and sharpens our willpower. In today’s post, Joseph Shumway shares how we can harness the winds of adversity by setting our sails to increased capacity, following Christ, and encouraging others to join us on our journey. We were made for such a time as this and can trust that God has the divine power to lift us to great heights from what appears to be an unbearable burden. Like Paul, may we discover that God’s power is made perfect in our weakness, and “most gladly therefore glory in our infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon us” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Today marks a season of struggle for many of us with financial loss, uncertainty, loneliness, and physical suffering. COVID-19 has affected millions of people in a myriad of ways. In this week’s post, writer and teacher, Rachel Ryan, shares four reasons she is thankful for tragedy and the unexpected blessings that come from it.
When we live in a place of fear, we have no room for faith. In today’s post, writer and therapist, Danielle Pete, talks about how we can cultivate faith in times of uncertainty and be the Church in the midst of a global pandemic.
How do we pray when we have no words or don’t know where to begin? What do we say when we long for God’s peace, but all we feel is anxiety and fear? We can start by praying the way Jesus taught His disciples two thousand years ago. In today’s post, writer and teacher, Rachel Ryan, shares the prayer she’s clinging to through the Coronavirus pandemic and how that prayer has brought comfort and hope in the midst of uncertainty and hardship.
Today’s post outlines eight spiritual disciplines as described in Richard Foster’s book, The Celebration of Discipline. Each of these practices has been life-changing for me in cultivating the fruit of the Spirit and experiencing Christ’s love, peace, and joy to greater depths. I pray that they will help you in your spiritual walk as you move toward health and wholeness.
